Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Jiang Yuxia – Global Times – Tuesday, 21 May 2013 (originally published 13 May) A popular Chinese adage claims women hold up half the sky, although in the theater world female directors languish as relative understudies to their male counterparts. It was this imbalance that last year inspired the inaugural International Women’s Festival (IWF), which this [...]
Wayne Visser – Guardian – Monday, 29 October 2012 (originally published 26 Oct) A few years ago, on one of my visits to China, I was invited to speak to a group in Shanghai called Women in Sustainability Action(Wisa). The organisation was set up by a former academic colleague, Jacylyn Shi, as a global network [...]
Didi Kirsten Tatlow – New York Times – Thursday, 13 September 2012 (originally published 11 Sept) BEIJING — Shackling during childbirth? Wang Jinling sounds horrified when asked whether it happens in Chinese prisons, as it does in prisons in the United States. “Really!” said Ms. Wang, one of China’s leading researchers on women in prison, [...]
Alex Pearlman – Global Post – Thursday, 16 August 2012 (originally published 11Aug) After a woman was sentenced to a labor camp for protesting leniency for her daughter’s rapist, Chinese authorities bent to public pressure and released her. When her 11-year-old daughter was kidnapped, raped and forced into prostitution in 2006, Tang Hui (a pseudonym being [...]
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